Who are the Volga boat men and what is the tactical implication behind their deployment?
Who are the Volga boat men and what is the tactical implication behind their deployment?
Who are the Volga boat men and what is the tactical implication behind their deployment?
>more vatBlack person cope material
>2
>more
>weeks
>4 more weeks
>gloves will finally come off
QRD on the Volga Boatmen?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_the_Volga_Boatmen
That doesn't explain anything
As much as I hate vatBlack folk russia has some cool history and culture (Modern day russia fricking sucks though, it's an AIDS infested nigeria with snow)
>watch out, russia is sending miserable, broken down old peasants.
Ok?
Isn't that what's already been happening?
keen observers will spot the steamship in this picture.
the point is that russoid labour is cheaper than coal to pull ships with
By Ukrainian artist Ilya Repin.
Frick I was gonna post this
I felt real clever about it too
wasn't there a screencap with commentary of this work of art going around, pointing out the contrast between the miserable peasants and the modern steamer chugging around in the background?
#t=35m12s
There's English subtitles. To summarize: The painting illustrates Russian technological moronation and backwardness. They still used manpower to haul ships when Germans operated coal burning ships on the Volga.
It was always funny to me when I saw old computer science books written in cyrilic describe assembler instruction set made of english instructions
>miserable
Burlaks were the highest paid unskilled workers, they had wages on the same level, and sometimes higher than low-level government bureaucrats. Please stop getting your info on history from paintings.
they did work we did with half their number in horses, centuries earlier. just because you make money doesn't mean you don't hate your job, just look at the modern wagie.
>they did work we did with half their number in horses
Imagine the smell.
>Burlaks were the highest paid unskilled workers, they had wages on the same level, and sometimes higher than low-level government bureaucrats.
Kek. I recognize that gay russian cope.
Cope with what you cretin? It's literally true.
>Burlaks were the highest paid unskilled workers
They were worse off than most of the slaves in history, you absolute mong.
Care to elaborate? "Voices told me so" an "they are puccians therefore they were miserable" don't count.
Obviously they were miserable because they were Russians.
They were lowest class serfs, debtors and people especially down on their luck used as a human cattle. Often in unimaginably terrible conditions. During summer, when they often collapsed from exhaustion/dehydration, their bodies were often just left there (what does this remind you).
There is a reason why there are songs and paintings and other works of art about their suffering. In plenty of slav languages you have some kind of saying that around the lines of "suffering/toiling like a burlak."
t. slav who is not on vata copium
You would hope, imagine breaking most of your body down just to move a boat upstream and not being able to work to sustain yourself because every joint in your body is shot and your back is doubled over.
Tons of backbreaking or dangerous industries pay or have paid well.
Just look at how well being an oil roughneck pays.
Being a burlak was also seasonal because you can't tow barges when rivers are frozen.
It was an occupation of the desperate and miserable. It's genuinely bizarre that russians try to defend it.
How are you dealing with the collapse Eurobros?
Why can't I hold all this gas?
>But the prices...
Sure doesn't hurt to be so filthy rich that food and energy prices going up high double digits percent only mean I have to eat healthier and less trash food.
T...thanks i guess...
I was a bit skeptical when the Baltics joined nato but god damn as they fired up and ready to go.
So erase all of your wojak shit and put an ukrainian war in there, because your clown parade of a country isn't bleeding to keep the monkey in check. Fricking thirst for protagonism and lazy wojak garbage. Frick you to death.
Picked up my last tomatoes last week, hottest winter I have ever seen
In 2 weeks you are going to freeze to death
nah I froze two weeks ago
nah I get my heat from a plant where they burn garbage
t.swede it's very warm too, very comfy. Currently sitting in boxers and snuggling a blankie, gonna go reheat some soup in a bit
life is comfy frens, wouldnt want to be russian now 🙂
I wish I could wear woolly socks my grandma made me for last christmas but its too fricking hot and Im sweating like an animal
i know anon. actually i just realised i have the window open, oops haha
time for some nice spicy soup now, hope you can cool down later fren 🙂
Clearly you have become delusional from the cold. Most people who approach death by freezing report that they feel very comfy and warm as the hypothermia starts to take their last breaths away. I urge you to seek hospitalization immediately before you freeze to death. Really! Right now! You don't know how close you are!
No can do, friendo, I've just hit levels of comfy never before thought possible. My whole body feels like a wooly mitten cradling a kitty cat inside a cup of waaarm chocolate.
Frens?
W-what's that noise I hear?
F-frens?
Perfect sunny day to finish stacking my firewood. 2x the price it was last year, but the entire winter's suply still costs just 1/6 of my monthly wage. Gonna be a comfy winter.
That looks like some comfy stacked wood, anon.
I wish I didn't live in an apartment and could be stacking some wood.
Yep, physical activity where you work to provide for your imediate future like gardening, carpentry or stacking wood does wonders for you physical and mental health. Especially if you do some computer/ people heavy job in your day to day.
do you chop it yourself or buy pre-chopped?
I buy spilt logs, but I have to chop them down to fit my wood stove. The small opening is a pain in the ass, but it looks good. Might replace it next winter.
Ah, so that's why they were so small, I was already wondering why one would chop them to that size
That looks comfy. Where do you live?
Lithuania. So winters are cold, but nothing too bad.
Where do you live that they haven't outlawed them yet? Here in burgerstan some "cities"(basically even towns of like 50kpop) don't even allow wood burning fireplaces/stoves to be put in new construction, or give permits for renovations.
NTA, but what about, well, simply not telling anyone?
You do realize the bans have to do with air pollution? Fireplaces are OK in your comfy remote cabin in the woods and not OK if your next door neighbor is burning old tires and condoms in his fireplace because he is too moronic to get the fire started otherwise
No one ITT is old enough to remember visible air pollution in the US and if they can't see it then it's not real. The baseline for pollution perception in the US (Burger here) is if it doesn't dissolve you like a Komet test pilot then it's harmless. I approve since it's convenient for me but it's still hilarious.
Is this how bad it is back east?
Here in the northwest even 100k+ cities allow wood and pellet stoves.
how much is that? couple of tons?
Not him, but if it is exclusive source of heat (which it is probably not in anon's case), it is not barely enough for a winter.
Wood heating only, but it's small, well insulated house, so when the days are +5 -5c one basket like that is enough. Two if it gets bellow that.
Based on US building codes, which are just... terrible. Insulation is extremely cost-efficient in every climate for comfort and quality of home; the only reason to cheap out on it is because you are building a thousand homes at once and selling them off the plan so the actual build quality doesn't matter unless it's literally unlawful.
4 m3 already stacked, 3 m3 - still working on. Typically I use 5-6 in a winter.
Wood is almost never measured by weight due to variations in water content and the species of wood. Especially when you have several species of wood represented. It's measured by volume, which isn't perfectly accurate or standardized across the variables, but it's a lot closer to standardized than weight. In the U.S. we use the archaic "cord of wood," the equivalent of 4 feet by 4 feet by 8 feet (128 cubic feet). It is always assumed that the wood is stacked reasonably tight, such as
. Someone who tries to stack the wood loosely goes out of business pretty rapidly, since (most) people who buy firewood today are well-aware of what a seasoned cord of firewood should look like when stacked.
Why does the wood at the bottom have such a weird shape?
Its called a pallet, anon.
Comprehend the incomprehensible
It must be nice to live somewhere where you can stack up a big pile of wood without it immediately becoming a nest for hundreds of deadly spiders
The spiders ain´t deadly, you just a pussy. Use gloves.
t.
Anon, the weather which requires the use of firewood is not conducive to the health of insects.
How many fricking spiders are you finding in an unheated, unsealed building during the cold winter months?
Nice shack anon! I hope you get many cozy days with those.
Nothing more comfy than stacked wood.
Here it was 3x this year. Then again, our region is not moronic like southern Norway and we have cheap electricity. Still i bought cut-offs of spruce instead of usual birch. They were dirt cheap and they work well even though I gotta use a bit more in the first batch(but the resulting charcoal is also running much longer)
>pallets
Russians cannot understand.
>wood structure
>to store wood in
we truly live in a world
>city of Pavlika
>city of Opytne
They are both barely villages, moron.
I am getting debt-free in two months, own all my shit and will be buying new AR soon. Comfiest collapse ever.
firewood went up about 10% compared to last year
I'm literally freezing and starving right now
Well duh, you are Russian.
Not Russian but irony.
It's terrible, temperature won't even go back above 20°C during the day anymore. I can't go swimming in the sea like this.
Pussy. Come live to the north. You can bathe all year round, because it makes no difference anyway....
ZAMN..... bros... NATOSisters.....,.. we got too wienery... My name is Mikhail Jensen, from Z-land oblast, I am freezing and starving to death... no food from 2 weeks, no heat from 4 weeks.... I..... am... dead............... ....
danskjävel
I put on a jumper outside yesterday. The humanity!
I'm coolapsing guys, what should I do?
Russians should be genocided purely for making me excited about a possibility of a cold winter with snow
It’s horrible. I have to wear… two sweaters! And I can only warm my apartment to 25 C! Oh the horrors of freezing to death!
I was getting all excited i'm finally going to sleep well after the centralized heating is reduced, but it's so hot outside the heating doesn't even come on and i still have to keep window open.
EUbros, I had to use an extra blanket last night. Truly our civilization is falling and we need to embrace our Russian overlords
Why do people that insist Russia is the right side in the conflict always seem to think Russia is so callous with the lives of its people that for some reason they've been holding back the entire time.
The Boat Men of Volga sounds like some moronic group in a fantasy novel
I can't wait for all the roasted piggies 🙂
>Pavilvka
>City
It barely qualifies as a town. They are celebrating capturing a settlement a few streets wide after turning it to rubble.
Cope piggy Kiev will fall soon 🙂
bad bait
And they didn't even capture it, they just raised a flag on a building in the outskirts.
It is a village, not even a town. Population of around 40 before the war, so even for a village it is extremely small.
This poster is making the bold prediction that the Russians will manage to advance almost 50 meters a day.
Comment sections on pro-Russian Youtube videos are way funnier than /cumchug/
It's all mentally ill boomers and third worlders who barely speak English
RAF laughter intensifies
It's funny until you realise Russian propaganda is just out there, running wild and nobody is doing anything about it.
We're all lucky vatniks turned out to be incompetent, because we keep leaving ourselves wide open.
>We're all lucky vatniks turned out to be incompetent
vatBlack person spent more money on propaganda than on defense. You can't have both.
>It's funny until you realise Russian propaganda is just out there, running wild and nobody is doing anything about it.
>We're all lucky vatniks turned out to be incompetent, because we keep leaving ourselves wide open.
How many of those are Russian expats? Sounds to me like Russians in Irealand are being persecuted? Maye Ireland needs a special operation?*~~*~~)
Probably none of them. The IRA was full-on marxist for most of its history so it's no surprise there are still a subset of Irish republicans sucking Russian wiener to this day because they hope they still get that salty taste of the Soviet Union
Separatists styling themselves as "The Donbass Peoples' Republic" was a smart PR move because dumb commies the world over believe it's a burgeoning socialist paradise, not just land for Russian oligarchs to suck dry of its resources and make billions while the people live like it's still 1920
But that was also what the USSR was?
“Since 1974 the IRSP have opposed NATO, and in 1982, in an act of solidarity with our socialist comrades across the world, volunteers from the INLA bombed the Mt Gabrial [sic] Radar Domes used by NATO during the ‘Cold War’.”
This recalls an attack on Mount Gabriel in Co Cork, where at 3.30am during September 1982, an INLA team seized two technicians on duty, tied them up, and detonated explosives around the facility (which the Irish government insisted was an air traffic control station, not a NATO facility).
The IRSP added: “Make no mistake, NATO are the biggest threat to world peace.
“The conflict in Ukraine is not simply black and white, it is a conflict that can be traced back nearly 20 years with NATO expansionism in the east, providing a major catalyst and confrontation that threatens the very existence of humanity."
All vatBlack person quislings and traitors should hang
>it is a conflict that can be traced back nearly 20 years with NATO expansionism in the east
Jeez, just let Russia abuse Eastern Euros like they did for centuries. How dare these people decide to join a defensive alliance so they can live without fear of Russia. God damn warmongers I swear.
We told you about the Republicans man. We told you.
>>INLA
Lmao so they're whats left of literal communist proxies of the Cold War.
>Russian propaganda is just out there, running wild
Normies don't watch these videos or subscribe to any usual propaganda sources and their involvement ends with an occasional donation to refugee charities and maybe comparing Putin to Hitler on some normie vent site like twitter. It very much doesn't reach them. The impression of vatnik propaganda being far reaching comes from a smaller group that is extremely pro-active on all possible channels i.e. first they watch their favourite post-gamer gate youtuber shitout another le based doompill, then they relocate to their favorite discord to le thumbs up another pig on ukie flag edit, then they enter the usual thread on PrepHole and make angry comments about recent events, then hop on telegram to share the lastest spicy twitter takes, all the same group.
High on rage dopamine they frick off do to something else until evening comes when the loop continues. Meanwhile glow glows sponsoring it record everything and compile a report assuming that the same group is at least four times as large due to engagement on multiple platforms.
Then you also get semi-normie doompill peddlers, usually from twitter or youtube, but even major gays like Tucker Carlson, also coming to the same glow glow conclusions who then announce how the revolution/boogaloo/whatever is about to happen plz buy my survival box 20% off with my code, which only reinforces the image of said group being larger than it is.
Then happening happens and nothing fricking happens because a bunch of permaonline discord incels will never do anything.
>who then announce how the revolution/boogaloo/whatever is about to happen plz buy my survival box 20% off with my code
Kek.
I have a colleague at work who told me ten times in two years (I am counting) that "things will go down this week" and that "everything will crash. You should prepare yourself." Ten fricking times. And he keeps doing it. The last time was just a month ago. He sees no issue with it and keeps deepthroating his "insider sources" (aka qtard moron telegram channels), no matter if they made him look a like fricking idiot ten times already.
Shit is just uncanny. I remember getting photos of bombed-out streets and unexploded ordnance from a friend who married a Ukrainian girl and volunteered from the first days. While this braindead fricktard at work has been telling me with a stone face that "there is no war in Ukraine. Only Ukrainian mob shooting each other, while Russians are watching." When I showed him the pics, he said it was fake. All because his favorite moron echo-chamber told him. Some people are unbelievably moronic.
A manager at my wife's work is full /q/boomer and just about every week he says some "x will happen on y, enjoy the show" bullshit.
He has been wrong every single time for three years now, and he still thinks he has always been right. If you point out his contradictions, he either claims he never said that, or brings up some story about how Trump or the Deep State did some maneuvering to change the plan.
If I ever start acting like that, I hope somebody puts a bullet in my head.
>"x will happen on y, enjoy the show"
This too. The fricking smugness of these cretins.
13.11
Watch the water
Cold approaching...think river...think frozen
Two weeks frozen
Think Kherson
OMG A NEW Z DROP
Your wife is fricking him.
If that happened, it'd be a win for me. I'd divorce her, take the kids, and find a new, younger wife. While she gets an old moron.
Feels good not being western.
Why the frick does your wife's boss even care about trump bullshit if you aren't in the west? Goddamn some people are beyond help.
>Then happening happens and nothing fricking happens because a bunch of permaonline discord incels will never do anything
The funniest part is that when any of them actually does anything the rest will immediately call him a glowie agent or when Jan 6th happened and a lot of people started saying it was Antifa the second it was over
Whole Qtard frickery is nothing but politicized cowardice. These people are pissers in real life, they are pissers with their wife if they have any, they are pissers in their jobs. Unsurprisingly, they are also pissers in their views. Magical daddy Q/Trump/Putin will solve it all for me, I just have to read the signs. God forbid I would be called to do something real.
This is why /misc/Black folk are so averse to any kind of real action. Rare ones who actually rise above this systemic masturbatory cowardice will immediately get called glowBlack person.
Qtards got ran off /misc/, but it's true that whenever someone does something they get thrown under the buss. MIGAtards still love blormpf even after he fricked Jan. 6 people.
>politicized cowardice
My suspicion is controlled opposition
>You're dissatisfied with our government, but look: this superhero is totally fixing everything from behind the scenes! Q is taking care of everything, so you don't need to do anything but relax, drink your corn syrup, and wait for our-I mean their next update!
>Anglosionism
This like the inverse of Simpsons commienazies?
Isn't Commienazis also just Dugin?
>Bakhmut will fall in 2 weeks
>Men who have regressed to living in the dregs of a leftover society and have grown tribal and superstitious, are manipulated and controlled by a man who still remembers the old society.
Sums up the modern Russian pretty well
vatBlack person cope is something else.
NATO can't compete with the floating river bush camouflage
Holy shit. There's two soldiers in this picture. Check the bushes on the boat. Those aren't normal boat bushes. Zoom in and look extra careful you'll see two guys.
What the frick are you talking about? It's just an empty boat with some plants on it. Seek help.
Why are they so obsessed with Bakhmut? (sounds like some Turkish immigrant sitting next to you in 5th grade.)
Taking over the rest of Donetsk region is the last cope they've got for muh dombabwe narrative(because muh liberation(regime change) and muh novorossiya narratives have both already failed), and they're trying to psyop (you) into thinking Bakhmut is just that(don't look at Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, goy!)
Thx!
They're a spec-ops divison akin to the Transsib Train Trannies, the Baikal Balkanizers and the Ural Oral Adderall Takers.
>City of Pavlika and Opytne
>Combined population before war around 2000
wooow
Pre-war population, anon. One of them had less than 100 from the latest sources.
Pavlika hasn't even been taken.
>General Serovekian
Armenian diaspora scum wrote that post
>loses 80k men
>w-we weren't even serious yet
>2 more weeks
>t-trust the plan
>Pavlivka
>Opytne
>city
Not even by Russian standards are these places big enough to be called cities.
LISTEN the gloves are coming OFF! This time is SERIOUS! This is not a BLUFF! I AM SERIOUS YOU GUYS!
Make Volga German Again
Remember 3rd army corpse?
I don't.
I remember the corpses :DDD
>j-just wait for the Volga Boat Men!
>the Leningrad Sidewalk Sweepers will show ya!
>the Yakutsk Dumptruck Drivers shall be here any minute now!!!
>the Bakers of Magnitogorsk are upon you now!
>just wait til the Cable Layers of Vladivostok arrive!
They’ll need a dedicated team of freshwater freight barge towers to pull Zelensky’s wiener out of Putin’s arse after the war
>3-4 weeks
>2 weeks
>2 more weeks
frick's sake russia you're just making yourself look bad when you say this shit
>Who are the Volga boat men
Slavery, a Russian domestic alternative to imported steam engines.
>took the city of Pavlika and Optyne
This must be a troll.
Gas prices are 50% above what they were last summer but since I'm not a poorgay I won't have any issues.
Also with this mild of a winter I probably won't use much anyway. Might actually end up saving money
I thought Pavlivka was still contested?
It is. Some Russians just put a flag on some random house on the outskirts and took pics.
>the Volga boat men
>the Volga boat men
>3 weeks
>and then another 3 weeks
>and 3 months later...
at that rate, they'll have conquered ukraine sometime within the next 36 years
it's just the kadyrovites. among their many skills, they also motorboat mobiks.
>russia took the city of pavlivka
lol
lmao, even
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/11/08/russian-marines-blame-selfish-generals-botched-attack-killed/
Leave it to Russia attacking on dry land with a boat
>"bakhmut will fall in 2 weeks"
but why? you will only create a vulnerable salient, the attack on bakhmut made sense when russia controlled izium and lyman, it doesnt anymore so its a waste of time
its as if the attack because its own reason to exist
>"we have to take bakhmut because its the place we are attacking"
>and why are you attacking it?
>"because its the place we have to take"
bakhmut has been constantly falling to Russia for about the 5th or 6th straight month now
So grim. That guy is like a Greek Bong or something iirc.
Some Volga boatmen are already washing ashore on the Dnpiro!
>Bakhmut in 2 more weeks